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Allergic to baseball and didn't tune into Jerry Seinfeld's commentary on the Mets game on Tuesday? Here's what you missed: Seinfeld said that earlier that day he went out on Louis C.K.'s boat to film an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. This should be a blast because while we've seen Seinfeld and C.K. display their prickly/affectionate rapport in various environments (HBO's Talking Funny, Louie's third season), the thing that was always missing was a boat.

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Is Jerry Seinfeld guest-starring on the upcoming third season of Louis C.K.'s FX series Louie? If you believe Chris Rock would accidentally let that tidbit slip during a press junket, the answer is yes. Here's how the news was dealt, according to Hollywood.com: "At the junket for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, [Chris] Rock answered his cell phone during his interview with Hollywood.com. But the interruption was for a good reason: Seinfeld was dropping Rock a line to chat about his day at work ... on the set of FX's Louie."Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais showed up in Louie's past two seasons, and if Seinfeld makes an appearance Louis C.K. will have nabbed everyone who appeared with him on HBO's excellent Talking Funny special. Plus, Marc Maron recently tweeted that he's shooting "a scene" for Louie. Maron and C.K. are besties of olde, with the latter

Midway through last year's Talking Funny, a round table discussion among some of the world's most famous stand-up comics, Ricky Gervais claims, "In comedy... I think, you have to be the underdog. There's no place for being above the audience." He asserts that he plays a character on stage, ironically presenting himself as better or more knowledgeable than the people in the seats.

Judging from some of Gervais' more recent television projects, the mastermind behind The Office and the similarly brilliant entertainment industry satire Extras has become so mired in self-satisfaction that any ironic distance between Gervais as performer and Gervais as character is all but lost. To put it another way, there exists a fundamental divide between what Gervais is doing and what he thinks he's doing. Which is a shame, because while his material can often still be very funny, it's a bit harder to laugh along with

"Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog," wrote E B White. "Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." It's one of those quotes that's often repeated and always sounds impressive despite being complete nonsense. The question of what we find funny and why never gets old. Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Bergson and Freud all had a crack at solving the mystery and tonight Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis Ck get their chance as Sky Atlantic screens Talking Funny – a one-off unscripted hour-long free-flowing discussion about comedy.

It's a terrific show – always insightful, often funny. The four are passionate about comedy and shop talk a lot more openly than comedians ever do in interviews. They get into how they got good ("I used to take

Andrew Marr takes us on a tour of the "megacity", the habitat of the future. There are already 21 cities with populations of more than 10 million and plenty more on the way. For the first time in human history, there are now more people across the

Andrew Marr takes us on a tour of the "megacity", the habitat of the future. There are already 21 cities with populations of more than 10 million and plenty more on the way. For the first time in human history, there are now more people across the

HBO one-off comedy special Talking Funny will air on Sky Atlantic in June. The Us programme stars Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock as a group discussing their art and success as comedians. Each of the comedians shares stories and jokes, and answers questions such as "Who was the first funny kid you ever met?", "When is it time to add new material to your act?" and "How do you know when you've hit on the proverbial (more)

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